Sent by Chris Broadfoot on 19 February 2008 06:06
Rafael wrote:
> Jason Crosse wrote:
>> On 18/02/2008 16:09, Rick Faircloth wrote:
>>
>>> I've realized at the start of a pretty large site, including
>>> Internet and Intranet sections, that my stylesheet could grow
>>> very large and even finding sections of styles for particular
>>> pages could be a cumbersome task.
>>>
>>> What I'm considering is having one main stylesheet, then
>>> having supplemental stylesheet for the various pages I will create.
>>> E.g., for a particular page, I would have main.css, plus index.css.
>>> For announcements, I would have main.css, plus announcements.css.
>>>
>>> I would be avoiding loading a lot of irrelevant styles for a particular
>>> page and make finding style references much easier, too.
>>>
>> You could take the modular approach. Instead of creating stylesheets
>> for individual pages, you could, for example have
>>
>> * common.css
>> * web.css
>> * intranet.css
>>
>> Having individual style files for individual pages seems worse than
>> embedding styles in the head of a document. It seems to me you've
>> got all the disadvantages plus extra calls to the server.
>>
> This may be a slightly off-topic thread, but in the meanwhile...
> If you are concerned about performance you should combine
> everything, even more if you have a server-side language at your
> disposition. So what I mean is a little bit more of a complex solution...
>
> Having separate style sheets usually helps to keep everything
> organized (depending on how you build them), but it also gives you more
> connections to the server. So what you can do is to make use of that
> server-side language you have, just make sure to send the appropriate
> HTTP headers. I.e:
> In the (x)HTML page:
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> href="css.dynamic.xxx/common/web" />
> In css.dynamic.xxx, something like
> - split path-info by '/'
> - check by matching against the available files
> - send headers and embed all the files into one
I personally don't like this idea. You have no benefit from caching and
might as well include all those styles in an inline <style> tag.
I think styles for each page is inherently bad, your styles across the
site should be consistent, therefore you shouldn't /need/ a large amount
of specific styles for pages.
Regards,
Chris
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